Maktabios / Open Virtual Library

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  On the first of April 2013, a new history of cataloging rules will be started. Resources Description and Access (RDA) will be applied officially by major libraries in America and Europe; RDA will be applied after a period of experimental work. RDA was launched after cooperative efforts of major organizations in the global library community. This conference aiming at leading the Arab library community to involve in the new history of cataloging. The conference will discuss very important issues related to RDA and challenges that face the Arab library community. Translation issues of RDA will be deeply discussed. The conference will also discover the changes between AACR2 and RDA on bibliographic records and authority files.   Main topics 1.    The theory and philosophy of RDA. 2.    Translation issues, and challenges of application in Arab libraries. 3.  ...

Khalid Abdul Karim Juma Announce the death yesterday morning writer Dr. Khalid Abdul Karim Juma ... Who dedicated his life in service to literature and publishing and creativity, as it was his fruitful efforts in the field of cash in Kuwait. He served late membership of the Board of Directors of the Association of Kuwaiti writers, in a lot of sessions, also left an important cultural legacy in various fields of intellectual literary and cultural. Late born in 1946, and worked as a lecturer at Kuwait University, and earned a doctorate at the University of Cairo in Arabic, and he practiced teaching in the Department of English at the University of Kuwait. Also served as director of the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts of the Arab Organization for Education, Science and Culture, and was based in Kuwait in 1982 until 1986. Association chaired faculty members at the University of Kuwait in 1984 until 1990. It is also the owner of Dar Arabism for publication and distribution. And a me...

Library of Alexandria Alexandria Library is experiencing its second conference of the Arab Publishers Union which continues to work for two days under the title: "enable knowledge and the challenges of the Arab publishing industry". Assem Shalaby "head of the Arab Publishers Union" said :the conference which is held jointly by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Library of Alexandria and a federal Arab and Egyptian publishers represents an important point to emphasize the importance of the book industry in the Arab world". Participants in the conference the International Publishers Association board and a number of Arab Ministers of Culture as well as a number of writers and thinkers and specialists in print and directed the book as well as many of the specialists in the libraries in the Arab world. According to Dr. Khaled Azab "head of the project at the Library of Alexandria" that the library will announce support Somali National Lib...

Latvia : Latvia University Latvian Academic Library Lithuania : Vilnius University The Netherlands :   University libraries Delft University of Technology Library Dutch Union Catalogue of Agricultural Books and Periodicals (Agralin) Eindhoven University of Technology Library Erasmus University of Rotterdam Library Free University of Amsterdam Library Nijenrode University Library University of Amsterdam Library University of Groningen Library University of Leiden Library University of Maastricht Library University of Nijmegen Library University of Tilburg Library University of Twente Library University of Utrecht Library Wageningen Agricultural University Library College libraries Rotterdam Polytechnic (HR&O) Library Utrecht College of Higher Education Library Zeeland Polytechnic Library Special libraries Catholic Documentation Centre (Dutch) Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science CWI Library Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland (ECN) (Dutch) FASO-bibliotheek (Dutch) KNMI...

Austria : National Library of Austria University of Graz Belgium : Catholic University of Leuven Catholic University of Louvain LIBIS - Net Catalogue Access Royal Library - Brussels University of Antwerp University of Liege University of Mons-Hainaut Cseh Rep. : National Library of the Czech Republic Denmark : Aalborg library Aarhus Public Libraries Brussels Free University (VUB) Copenhagen Business School Library Danish Technical Knowledge Center Roskilde University Royal Library of Denmark Sikeborg Library Estonia : National Library of Estonia Finland : Åbo Akademi University Finnish National Library of Health Sciences Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University Helsinki City Library Jyväskylä University Joensuu University Oulu University University of Lapland France : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique INRIA's libreries - Research Center of Sophia Antipolis National Agronomic Institute National Library of France Germany : Aachen Physics Institute Library Aug...

An Oxford University librarian has lost her job after students filmed themselves doing the latest dance craze on her watch. Calypso Nash, 23, was dismissed from St Hilda’s College after a video that shows students noisily performing a ‘Harlem Shake’ in the college library appeared on YouTube. The dance became an internet sensation last month when five Australian teenagers posted online footage of themselves gyrating to a song of the same name, by US artiste DJ Baauer. A petition has now been started by students, and the culprits, to have the librarian reinstated as she was ‘not in the position to stop it’. Ms Nash was working there that night but had nothing to do with organising the event and had not been asked if it could go ahead. In the video, posted on YouTube, a group of around 30 students are shown studying quietly in the grand surroundings of St Hilda’s. Then a youngster dressed as an American footballer is seen dancing before the film cuts to all the students doing the Harl...